Field Reimbursement Manager, Respiratory Biologics-Kentucky

At AstraZeneca, it’s our patients who come first; every decision we make and action we take is centered around how we can better serve them. It’s why we are shaping patient care for the future, working along the whole experience to give hope to billions of lives across the world.

The general purpose of the Field Reimbursement Manager (FRM) role is to minimize reimbursement barriers for patients and providers and, therefore, support access to AstraZeneca products in the Respiratory Biologics therapeutic area. This purpose will be achieved by delivering high-quality interactions with key physicians, accounts, and institutional customers through specialized services. The FRM must have a strategic mindset and complex problem-solving skills to be successful in their role. 

FRMs will work directly with and across several internal departments and cross-functional partners, including Managed Markets, Access Services, Key Accounts, Trade & Channel, as well as Sales & Marketing, to support accounts experiencing challenging reimbursement, access, and affordability cases in AZ’s Respiratory Biologicstherapeutic area. FRMs are expected to develop and execute ethical and customer-oriented reimbursement strategies. They are expected to demonstrate market expertisein communicating payer criteria/terms and practices, as these relate to assigned AZ products. 

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Like all other employees, FRMs are fully accountable for compliance with all laws, regulations, and policies that govern the conduct of AstraZeneca activities. 

What you’ll do:

• Collaborates with the manager, peers, and internal partners in Marketing, Sales, and various Managed Markets and Trade groups to review and contribute to relevant franchise and managed care business plans, strategies, objectives, and priorities.

• With appropriate information, identify trends and emerging issues, align resources to address the issues, and communicate resolutions to the customer/field in a timely manner. 

• Maintain a high level of expertise in Managed Care and related Managed Markets, including benefit structures, reimbursement mechanisms, legal and regulatory influences, and health management programs.

• Access and influence key business decision-makers

• Maintain an outstanding level of industry awareness and Therapeutic Area knowledge, utilization management techniques, and treatment and reimbursement guidelines.

• Maintain an outstanding level of performance metric analytics.

• Prepare and present provider-levelcommunications.

• Maintain a comprehensive and detailed Territory Plan

Minimum Requirements: 

• Bachelor’s Degree 

• Minimum of 10+ years of total business experience in the healthcare, pharmaceutical, or biotech industry.

• Minimum of 6 plus years of sales, managed care, or reimbursement experience in the healthcare or pharmaceutical/biotech industry 

• Ability to travel a minimum of 50-75% (overnight)

Preferred Experience / Background:

• MBA or other related graduate-level degree is preferred.

• 8+ years of Biotech or Pharmaceutical Sales experience.

• 4 years of experience in the Respiratory Biologics therapeutic area. 

• 2 years of Access Services, Reimbursement, and/or Managed Markets experience. 

• Significant and documented experience with business planning and market analysis. 

• Minimum 2 years experience with buy & bill physician-administered specialty products. 

Why AstraZeneca?

At AstraZeneca, when we see an opportunity for change, we seize it and make it happen because any opportunity, no matter how small, can be the start of something big. Delivering life-changing medicines is about being entrepreneurial - finding those moments and recognizing their potential. Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organization to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we’re opening new ways to work, pioneering cutting-edge methods, and bringing unexpected teams together. Interested? Come and join our journey.

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